Going supersonic!

[dsb]

Just watched a program on Concorde, its been 8 years since its retirement, will there be anything in our lifetime to match its speed in passenger transit. I'm sure it was still profitable right to the end.

 

[tom_e]

Probably not airlines are much more focused on getting as many people on a plane as possible rather than speed

 

[jonislost]

I thought it wasn't profitable, especially towards the end!... I don't think we'll see anything like it again, at least not until a new type of fuel/power source is introduced.

 

[Cosimo]

It was quite an amazing aircraft:

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A few from the day the last commercial flight came into Heathrow on Friday 24th October 2003:

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One of our guys has been involved in the restoration of G-BBDG and G-CONC:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17556407

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18066998

 

[Meridian]

Just watched a program on Concorde, its been 8 years since its retirement, will there be anything in our lifetime to match its speed in passenger transit. I'm sure it was still profitable right to the end.

My understanding was that it was only profitable because a) all the development costs had been written off (and some of us are old enough to remember that saga) and b) because many of the spares were free.


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